Over 50 injured in protest against high power tariff in WB

At least 50 political workers and half-a-dozen policemen including a police inspector received injuries when the BJP workers demanding one nation one power tariff regime — marched towards the privately owned, century-old, Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC) building — clashed with law enforcers.

Senior State leaders like Raju Banerjee and Sayantan Basu, actor-turned-leader Suman Banerjee, and State BJP Yuva Morcha (youth wing) president Debjit Sarkar were later arrested police said adding water cannons were charged and tear gas shells fired as the crowd went berserk pelting brickbats at the police when they were stopped at the Central Avenue for want of permission to organise a movement in the area.